JGSGB members: Program is free. Members do not need to register.You can find the Zoom link by logging in to your JGSGB Membership account. Once logged in, use the "What would you like to do" dropdown to locate the Members-only Page for the Zoom link. You will also receive an email with the Zoom link the … Continue reading Janette Silverman – Illegitimacy in the Jewish Communities of Galicia →

Program Description:Did you know that the Allen County Public library has the second largest genealogical library collection in the United States and that much of its holdings can be accessed online? That’s why the 2025 IAJGS (International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies) conference will be in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. Curt Witcher, the Manager of the … Continue reading Curt Witcher – What the Fort Wayne, Indiana Genealogy Center Can Offer the Jewish Genealogist →

Program Description:What does Carol Clingan’s groundbreaking spreadsheet of historical details on 574 Massachusetts synagogues look like when it is turned into an interactive map? See what resulted when the JGSGB board asked a member with cartographic interests to try her hand at it. Find out how her learning process (in collaboration with the Boston Public Library’s Leventhal Map and Education Center) can … Continue reading Gilda Bruckman, Carol Clingan, Ian Spangler – Mapping Massachusetts’ Synagogues: What a New Historical Map Reveals About Jewish Life in MA Since 1840 →

  Program Description:This program will be recorded and available on the members' page. From the late 1800s through the 1920s, the United States saw a huge influx of Jewish immigrants. Jewish charities saw their work transformed as they sought to support the many needs that faced these new immigrants. Many of the emerging efforts gained … Continue reading Susan Weinberg – The Baron de Hirsch Fund: Shaping the Jewish Immigrant Experience →

Program Description: Join author Jordan Salama as he discusses his new book Stranger in the Desert: A Family Story, an intergenerational story about his search across Argentina for traces of his great-grandfather, a Syrian Jewish traveling salesman in the Andes. Salama used a variety of methods to ferret out the details of this fascinating family … Continue reading Jordan Salama – Stranger in the Desert: Rediscovering and Reimaging a Family Story →